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Let the traditional USB printer realize network printing
The company has an Epson L360 printer, which was less than 1000 yuan when it was bought, and the office usually does not pay much attention to the network function for printing. But the financial computer of the later equipment company can only be used by others through the computer! However, my computer has been unable to connect!

So, this change has taken place!

It is still very convenient to use!

Need to prepare to change the traditional USB printer to network printing.

1. Router or industrial computer supporting openwrt.

Needless to say, you need a printer.

First of all, I need to prepare a router or industrial computer that supports openwrt. I use industrial computers.

The system is installed with the device firmware of x645438+0.9 version made by fw867 of koolshare Forum!

The following is the firmware address:/openwrt _ x64 _ fw867/led-x64.1.9-update1-x86-64-combined-squashfs.img.gz The firmware will be upgraded from time to time. If the firmware can't be downloaded, go to their forum and have a look!

Brush the firmware into the device and log in to the device. I changed the device IP to192.168.40.1,just log in to this address directly! The password is their forum name: koolshare.

Then, plug the printer into the USB port of the device.

Then enter the device system and click "Service-Print Server". The device will automatically detect the printer! For others, it will be very troublesome if the driver is not detected, which is why I chose the firmware of fw867. As for how to install your own Baidu!

Then set the settings under the device! Equipment selection The first equipment Epson l360 interface selects LAN. The first set of ports is set to 9 100. Just select the two-way confirmation below!

The second stop, click Add, and the settings are as follows!

The equipment is set up at one point!

Then how can we test it? Click "System -webshell" to enter the command mode. User name: root password: koolshare. After input, input: netstat -an. If you can see the following two messages, it proves that there is no problem!

Port 9 100 is Epson l3600 91kloc-0/is a label printer! We can set up computers for the rest! My computer is win 10, so let me take win 10 as an example! It is best to install the drivers of two printers on the computer before installation! Click Add Printer in Settings-Devices. I can't find it under normal circumstances, so I have to click "The printer I need is not in the list".

Next, select "Add printer using TCP/IP address or host".

Next, enter "192.168.40.1"in the ip address, and the port name will be easy to remember by yourself.

Next, the system will automatically search, so it can't be searched.

Next, we need to set the port settings. Click Customize.

Next, we need to set the system port "9 10 1".

Next, the device will automatically detect the printer driver, and you need to manually select the device model.

Next, prompt whether to replace the driver, just choose the recommended one!

Next, the next step is to set the name and whether to enjoy it!

Finally finished, ready to use!

So you can print and use it through the network!